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27 August, 2010

My healthy breakfast

Vermicelli is a healthy, low calorie breakfast and you can make it anytime you want to make one pot meal. I use Bambino sevai made of hard wheat and semolina (sooji). You can add any number of vegetables to this to make it more nutritious. By using pre- roasted vermicelli, you can cut back on the quantity of oil used plus your labor.

1. Heat 2 tsp oil in a non- stick pan and roast sevai till golden. Take out sevia from the pan.

2. Heat 2 tsp oil in the same pan and add mustard seeds. When they splutter, add chana dal and after 2-3 seconds, add urad dal, peanuts and broken cashews. Roast till light brown. See to it that they don’t get burned.

5. Add sevai or semiya (vermicelli), mix and cook covered on medium heat for 3-4 minutes. Make sure there is some water left in the pan after the vegetables are cooked otherwise add some because vermicelli needs water in which to be cooked.

6. Turn off the heat and let it stand covered for few more minutes. Let all water evaporate and get absorbed.

Your healthy break fast took me back to my college days. I have done therapeutic dietetics and we used to prepare various recipes, calculate calories, proteins, Fe etc. It was all fun cooking at that time. But I changed tracks and in a different field now.